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Board - committee - Commission - Council: 2621 JUN 23 AM 10: I'!
Human Relations Advisory Committee
Date: 2021-05-13 Time: 7:00pm
Building: Town Hall Location: Town Zoom Call
Address: Remote Session:
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Josh Goldlust, Kyung Yu, Ashley Gross, Maddy Herrick
Members - Not Present: David Clark, Dani DeVirgilio
Others Present: Lisa Racine, Ally
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Josh Goldlust
Josh calls meeting to order at 7:05 pm
Agenda:
1. Sharing-
a. Town meeting seemed horrific, at least some of the language and anti LBGTQ
rant. A bit upsetting.
b. Excited for pride month
c. Excited about shots&vaccines progress and CDC update. Delicate process about
the mask mandate at the library
2. Police Read Out (Chief comments)-
a. Chief was not in attendance and no stand in present
b. Swastika in Coolidge middle school 2 weeks ago. Follow up at next meeting.
3. Library budget/Director recap
a. Ally recap on Amy's behalf. Positive overall. Library funding was approved.
Looking forward to filling that position & having it developed. Budget approved
which is also supportive of the position.
b. Lisa-Yes some unfortunate feedback. Points of frustration but reinforced why
we need this director. Library staff is really happy and looking forward to this.
c. Question from Ashley-advisory board a real thing?Yes a real thing
d. Josh-is there a timeframe for when the position will be posted?Ally, not yet
e. Josh Grant timing- (Ally)should find out about it in early July. Socially conscious
programming.
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f. Josh talked about impact for timing on when HRAC would/could be sunset
4. Pride Month programming
a. Josh to submit application to the town to hang sign on town common
b. Libraryfor June
I. Book list
ii. Teen room-pride club or reading challenge grades 6-12
iii. Children's room- Library's are for everyone Grab bag of chalk for families
to spread positive messages throughout the town.Throughout the month
iv. Mondays meet the Author
v. Josh asked How can HRAC help to communicate?Ally-Tap into Reading
sectors and community groups.Also what other things are the town
doing?
A. Ashley-aren't there pride oriented groups in the schools?yes the group
is GSA in high school or middle school?Josh can reach out to middle
school principal to see if there are connections there
vii.Maddy-What about signage?Ashley-what about stickers??Visible within
town. Maddy can reach out to see about options for signage.Ashley-Can
we give out stickers at the library, like on a grab back table? Lisa/Ally-as
long as it is generic and not for a specific candidate or person. Ally will
confirm with Amy.
viii. Also ability to use RPL platform to cross promote even if it isn't
specifically hosted by the library. All-let's think about things we can cross
promote or amplify.
S. HRAC Facebook page- May Community Calendar
a. May 21-World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
b. May 31st Memorial Day
c. June is PRIDE month
d. lune 15th Native American Citizenship Day
e. June 19th-Juneteenth aka Freedom Day
6. Additional items-None discussed
7. Minutes approval-
a. Kyung makes motion to approve minutes,Josh 2nds.Approved 3-0(Ashley
wasn't at 4/1 meeting)
B. Next Meeting-Thursday June 10th 7:30 PM
9. MeetingAdjourn-
a. Josh makes motion to adjourn.Ashley 2nds. Motion passes 4-0. Meeting
adjourns at 7:56 PM
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